Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 🇺🇿

أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا (Known as "The Prince of Physicians & Philosopher of Being")
Philosopher, Physician, Polymath, Author of The Book of Healing
Born 23 August 980 🇺🇿 Afshana (Bukhara), Uzbekistan
Passed Away 21 June 1037 Hamadan, Iran
Lifespan 56 years old
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"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit. Knowledge of oneself is the key to knowledge of God."

Archival Overview

'Prince of Physicians' and towering philosopher whose metaphysical encyclopedia The Book of Healing and Floating Man thought experiment shaped Islamic and European philosophy.

Biographical Record

Ibn Sina (980–1037 CE), known to the Western world as Avicenna, was a prodigy who had mastered logic, mathematics, and medicine by age eighteen. Serving as vizier and court physician to various Persian rulers, he produced an astonishing corpus of 450 works, most famously The Canon of Medicine and the encyclopedic Book of Healing (*Kitab al-Shifa*).

His philosophy created a profound synthesis of Aristotelian logic and Neoplatonic metaphysics, distinguishing between existence (*wujud*) and essence (*mahiyya*). His famous 'Floating Man' thought experiment demonstrated the direct self-awareness of the soul independent of all physical sensory input, anticipating Descartes by six centuries.

Key Life Milestones

c. 1020 CE

Completion of 'The Book of Healing'

Authored his monumental 20-volume philosophical encyclopedia covering logic, physics, geometry, and metaphysics.

c. 1025 CE

The Floating Man Thought Experiment

Articulated the famous philosophical proof demonstrating the non-material nature of self-awareness and consciousness.

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Final Resting Place

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Avicenna Mausoleum Complex
Hamadan, Iran
GPS: 34.7986, 48.5144
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